Jean Paul Quotes

When you lose a person you love so much, surviving the loss is difficult.

When grief is deepest, words are fewest.

Sadness flies away on the wings of time.

I suppose I'm interested in sorrow, which is very different from depression or despair. Sorrow is continuous with the world; it allows for creativity.

Grief is the price we pay for love.

I am not sad, but I am melancholic. When you lose your mother at 20 and then your father soon after, melancholia is part of your life.

Grief changes shape, but it never ends.

During my grandma's funeral, I looked over once and saw my mom crying, and I felt so bad for her.

Serious loss brings you into one of the world's silent fraternities.

Sorrow is properly that state of the mind in which our desires are fixed upon the past without looking forward to the future.

I'm in mourning for my life.

Losing my parents was probably the hardest and deepest blow from which I've had to recover.

I remember the day my mother died, and it's still hard to talk about it. I just blocked it out.

When you lose your mother at 20 and then your father soon after, melancholia is part of your life.

To mourn is to wonder at the strangeness that grief is not written all over your face in bruised hieroglyphics. And it's also to feel, quite powerfully, that you're not allowed to descend into the deepest fathom of your grief - that to do so would be taboo somehow.

I was terribly wounded by my wife's death.

But there is a discomfort that surrounds grief. It makes even the most well-intentioned people unsure of what to say. And so many of the freshly bereaved end up feeling even more alone.

I've never really had anybody close to me die. I think the song is about a feeling that I have that, it still applies. It's a feeling of longing, once again.

Grief is exhausting.

When Clark Gable died, I cried for 2 days straight. I couldn't eat or sleep.

In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality.

It would be a lie to say that people are coming to adoption with joy at all times. Hope, perhaps, but it would be disingenuous to say that every part coming to an adoption isn't seriously grieving.

Pearls mean tears.

Tears are the silent language of grief.

Do not weep for me.